The noble bigot prides himself - it usually is a man, due to gendered stereotypes- on doing the right thing and making sure that those in need are taken care of, yet in the same instance has no qualms with labeling those different from himself with unreasonably prejudiced terms and backhanded compliments. Although the noble bigot basically wallows in his own jerkass nature, he's not considered truly villainous. His bigotry might even be motivated by a misguided desire to be good and "loyal" rather than a Category Traitor, and might even tie into his positive traits (i.e. he considers himself to be superior, and superior people are supposed to be polite, honorable, etc). Other characters either are constantly revolted by his nature, or brush it off as it just being in his nature, in the hope that others will get used to it. It may or may not prove to be Pretend Prejudice.

This character will almost always be redeemed in the end - and even if he isn't, it will still be acknowledged that he has his good qualities. Sometimes, he is as sympathetic as such a character can be, only holding on to his prejudices due to a Freudian Excuse (his parents taught him to be this way, or he was once wronged by a member of the group he now despises). A distinct but closely related trope is the Innocent Bigot, who honestly thinks he is not prejudiced due to Values Dissonance, and is thus unaware rather than a Jerkass.

This trope has its roots in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, when well known scholars of the day condemned religious bigotry but viewed racial bigotry as acceptable and even logical. The attitude went mainstream during the Victorian era and then steadily degraded as it percolated down through the less educated classes. More modern anthropological discoveries during the early twentieth century did much to discredit scientific racism, and then the Holocaustkilled it off for good as a topic of serious discussion. In fiction, however, it is alive and well.

Examples:

Most of the heroes are at least slightly racist towards the Ishvalans (barring the Elric Brothers. Possibly justified since of their age.)

The surviving Ishvalans have admitted that they hate Amestris and many of its people for what they did to Ishval. Many bluntly state that they may never forgive Amestris for what its people have done. However, most of them are willing to put this aside and work with the heroes to save Amestris because they want to end the cycle of unthinking hatred and vengeance.

Many of these refugees (they're all refugees) are motivated by the opposite side of Scar's religious position, that Ishvala would not want them to be consumed by revenge but to survive and carry on their culture and blood. This is almost the only truly positive depiction of religion among the many, many appearances and references it receives over the course of the series.

Miles, a soldier in the northern fortress of Briggs. Kimblee has a remarkable scene with Miles where he's flaunting his evil Ishvalan-slaughtering cred (he seems to have founded his whole identity there and gets a huge kick out of how much Scar hates him) and enjoying what he presumes is Miles forcibly restraining himself because of the chain of command, when really Miles has mostly made his peace with the genocide issue, values the living more, and just wishes the annoying guy would shut up, but won't say so because his job is to keep him busy.

Rorschach from Watchmen. He Does Not Like Women and is homophobic (both apparently the result of the abuses of his childhood that makes him recoil from any expression of sexuality), but he does try to do the right thing a lot of the time (albeit from his own effed up perspective). Similarly, earlier heroes Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice, both seriously racist. (Not homophobic, though - in fact, they were a couple.)

Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl: Batgirl is very biased against parahumans, and she doesn't even trust super-powered crimefighters. Even so, she's a crime-fighter who is committed to protect people, she at least respects Wonder Woman a bit and befriends Supergirl, and at the end she appears to have gotten over her bigotry a bit. And she isn't as bad as Lex Luthor at any rate (She merely wants parahumans out of her city. Luthor wants them dead and doesn't even regard them as human beings)

Captain Nemo is a very rare non-white example. He harbors a severe hatred for the English but still works to save British civilians. Also shows a great deal of loyalty to his crew, many of whom happen to be white.

Wilq is a genuine superhero trying do the right thing for Opole and the rest of the world, but many of his opinions about sexual and ethnic minorities would be considered at least inappropriate by mainstream Western audience. His short temper doesn't really help, either.

Fanfiction

Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness has various DA members who happen to believe in pureblood supremacy. Rather oddly handled, though - in many cases, their only noble quality is being willing to fight Voldemort, and they still seem to hate all the mudbloods and non-bigots they're fighting with.

In the One Piece/Steven Universe crossover ''A Gem in the Rough", Pearl's character arc is seemingly to overcome this. Even though she respects and admires the humans in the Grand Line (especially Zoro, whom she even emulates his Santoryu style during the fight with Mr. 1), she truly believes that Gems are stronger than any human. It takes the combination of a dream version of Mihawk and Admiral Aokiji to make her realize how wrong she is.

Garnet also falls victim to this trope, but nowhere near as severe as Pearl. She is far more open to the strength of humanity, but is still highly overconfident in combat.

Films — Animated

Wyldstyle in The LEGO Movie is a Master Builder who fights to save the world in the name of creative freedom, but also looks down on non-Master Builders like Emmet, thinking of them as mindless lemmings who can't do anything without following instructions. After acknowledging Emmet's creative potential through his heroic deeds, however, she pulls a 180 on her tone and begins helping other non-Master Builders realize their own untapped potential.

Films — Live-Action

Mr. Putterman in Gremlins is outrageously patriotic to the point of xenophobia, even going so far as to getting plastered in a bar after he finds out his cab which he thought was 100% American-made is actually filled with foreign parts.

Walt Kowalski from Gran Torino, even toward the end of the movie after being adopted as a new grandparent by a Hmong family, still referred a particular Asian girl as "Yum Yum" when he couldn't pronounce her name.

Dirty Steve from Young Guns. He constantly harasses Chavez calling him a greaser and using Navaho as an insult, but in the final shootout he rides back to save Chavez getting himself killed instead.

All the Way has Lyndon B. Johnson portrayed this way, dropping casual N-bombs in private while fighting tooth and nail to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By contrast, Richard Russell, Jr. is shown to be repeatedly Nice to the Waiter when around black service personnel, but fighting desegregation at every turn.

Literature

The Rivers of War portrays Andrew Jackson like this. He is highly bigoted, even by the standards of the time, and does not hesitate to call friendly Cherokees "savages", ask how Sam Houston can be so sure that his coloured teamsters won't steal his gear and sum up state militias as drunken and cowardly to a man. However, he hesitates to shoot Red Eagle (a rebel Cherokee responsible for a major massacre) because he surrendered voluntarily, promotes a coloured sergeant to commissioned rank, against regulations, and threatens to kill a man who protests against arming free coloured men, but who won't join the militia himself. Essentially, the Andrew Jackson in the book is bigoted against groups but is capable of respecting an individual who is especially heroic and or a fierce fighter. While he is a bigot, he hates fools and cowards even more.

Played for laughs in Good Omens with Witchhunter Shadwell. He has a (mildly) derogatory slur for everyone, belittles foreign cultures and religions, and suspects everyone of being a witch or a warlock, yet everyone is charmed by him and he fearlessly prepares to fight Satan when the Apocalypse comes.

He also (maybe) acknowledges that Lady Margolotta (a vampire) isn't a complete monster (though he doesn't like her), and highly values Angua (a werewolf), Detritus (a troll), Cheery (a dwarf), and all the other Watchmen he works with, because they're no longer just dwarves/trolls/werewolves/vampires...they're watchmen.

In return, the non-human members of the Watch generally ignore Vimes' racist rhetoric, because they know that if their backs are against the wall, he'll be the first one diving in to help them.

Albrecht Albrechtsson from The Fifth Elephant hates Ankh-Morpork, but he's a good, loyal dwarf who, Rhys notes, probably would have made an excellent king a few hundred years ago.

A minor character in Raising Steam is a traditionalist dwarf who disapproves of human/dwarf marriage but nevertheless shows up politely dressed for one in his village since it'd be rude not to be there for a wedding to congratulate the couple. This ends up saving the lives of several people (though sadly not both in the couple) when extremist dwarfs attack the wedding, as he is politely dressed by traditional dwarf standards, IE what most humans would call heavily armed.

In the Dragaera universe, the Vlad Taltos books give us Aliera, and sometimes Vlad himself. Played with and lampshaded by Vlad when he realizes that, while he hates Dragaerans, almost all his friends and loved ones are Dragaerans.

Harry, the Gryffindors, and the other Houses could be considered this, given their attitude about Slytherin House. It's open for interpretation, as the books present them as being in the right to not trust any Slytherin.

In The Grimnoir Chronicles, Joe Vierra is a Portuguese farmer who spits at the Okies that pass by his farm. But he still buys and adopts the daughter of one family when he notices that she has a potentially self-destructive power that needs training.

Isengrim from The Reynard Cycle is portrayed this way consistently, in spite of the fact that he's rejected the society that made him that way. Old habits die hard, apparently.

Barrayar in Vorkosigan Saga. Honorable and valiant warriors who always keep their word but have an extreme prejudice against cripples.

In Tom Kratman's Caliphate, Adbul Mohsem might be anti-American, but he did care about Petra's well-being unlike his wife Khalifa.

Lord David Alderscroft, from the Elemental Masters novels, isn't quite as bad as some of the other examples on this page. But in most of his appearances, he assumes that nonwhites, the lower (social) classes, and females are inherently inferior to wealthy, white male nobility like himself.

Andalites are superior to every other species, at least according to themselves. They'll also make any personal sacrifice for what they consider to be the greater good, including laying down their lives at a moment's notice if that's necessary to avoid giving the Yeerk Empire an advantage. note The fact that they fully expect everyone else to be equally selfless is a little less noble, but they are certainly not hypocrites.

Live Action TV

Archie Bunker from All in the Family is a decent man at heart who clings to outdated ideas and prejudices. A big part of the show is Archie's family showing him the errors of his ways. The difference between Archie and real bigots is especially evident in an episode where he meets the KKK.

Angel: Connor was brought up to hate demons and magic by the Obliviously Evil Holtz, but has no intention of hurting humans (at first). Wesley even uses this as an excuse for not cluing Fred and Gunn in about him in "Deep Down".

Andy Sipowicz from NYPD Blue is a reformed mean drunk, whose racial bigotry stems ostensibly from his father being battered by a black man when trying to read the man's gas meter, and his own experiences infiltrating the Black Panthers when he was still freshly traumatized by his Vietnam war experiences. Sipowicz struggles to keep his racial bigotry from affecting his work, and consistently displays genuine empathy for people of color, even though at times his temper gets the best of him and he says the wrong thing to the wrong person.

Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars is something of a racist, and very much a classist. He really hates poor people. And yet, he's also genuinely heroic at times, and we root for him, and we cheer when he falls in love with Veronica and they become a couple.

Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead. While he still harbors the same racist tendencies as his older brother Merle and makes wisecracks about "Chinamen" at the end of the day, he's still an effective and capable survivor who's a crack shot with both a crossbow and rifle, and he pitches in to help the rest of the survivors as much as he can.

Mal:(to Inara, regarding a client he punched out earlier) I may not show respect to your job but he didn't respect you. That's the difference.

House: Gregory House: He's bigoted toward everyone but he will do whatever it takes to save their life from whatever disease is killing them. Possibly a subversion, since he pretty much mocks everyone's race, religion and sexual orientation, and it's pretty clear he's doing it to annoy them, rather than out of genuine prejudice. It's lampshaded in one episode after he fails to ruffle Cameron's feathers; she tells him that he's "a misanthrope, not a misogynist."

Frances "Our Country, Our Rules" O'Brien from The Librarians (2007). In spite of her frequently culturally insensitive comments and racially stereotyping (thinking that an Arabic internet banking site was advocating terrorism), she still manages to work with and even apparently care about a highly diverse group (many of whom she presumably does have the authority to fire). She's made more sympathetic by her unfortunate home life, her past and her panic disorder.

Rafe McAuley from Defiance. He generally holds aliens, especially Castithans, in contempt, largely because of the war, but he also tries to do the right thing, even, eventually, coming around, more or less, to his daughter marrying a Castithan.

Charles Emerson Winchester III in M*A*S*H, scion of a snooty Boston Brahmin family. Throughout the series his (very many) prejudices are Lampshaded and challenged and he is big enough to jettison many of them in the light of hard experience. Albeit in a graceless and reluctant way.

Jesus is presented in this way in a That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch when his disciples point out the inherentUnfortunate Implications in the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Note that, unlike how the sketch puts it, Samaritans were not an ethnic group but a sect of Judaism considered heretical by mainstream Judaism, thus making the moral of the parable less "goodness comes in unexpected places" but more "people society say are your neighbours (the priest and the Levite) can be still be dicks to you while people society say are dicks (the Samaritan) can still treat you as true neighbours, so don't go around treating people based on what society says about them but rather what they do" (which is exactly the point the disciples make in the sketch).

Tabletop Games

Space 1889 itís almost unavoidable that the player characters will display a bit of this attitude. They are supposed to be Victorians, who mostly believe in Victorian values, but still be good guys.

''Warhammer's High Elves are virtually all Noble Bigots, being incredibly haughty, aristocratic and condescending towards all non-elves, but at the same time devoted to fighting the forces of Chaos and protecting the world and its people from destruction. The entire elven race is afflicted with a sense of its own superiority over everyone else, but where this causes the Dark Elves to despise and enslave others and the Wood Elves to ignore them, in the High Elves it manifests as a patronising tendency towards helping the poor "lesser" races who couldn't possibly survive without High Elf help. One or two High Elves are aware of their racial prejudices - Teclis for instance - but most see it as the natural order of things. That elvenkind is naturally gifted far beyond the race of man provides a foundation for their monstrous egos.

Virtually every good or even heroic Imperial human in Warhammer 40,000 is also a bigot at the very least. Standard Imperium policy holds the Absolute Xenophobe as the ideal, with every citizen conditioned to hate and fear the unknown. They are further encouraged to kill every mutant, heretic, and alien they encounter (if possible). Even characters who get on reasonably well with aliens like Ciaphas Cain have to work through their disgust while holding a conversation. With characters from the Adeptus Astartes, respect for the xeno only comes if they prove a worthy foe.

Rocket Age makes it explicitly clear that all player characters are meant to be heroes, however, there is the Bigot negative trait, which gives negatives when interacting with people the character would look down on. downplayed, however, as the designers also make it clear that if a player has this trait the games master should require them to buy it off as soon as possible, to represent their character growing into a better person.

Video Games

*Mute from the visual novel Analogue: A Hate Story is extremely open about her sexism and homophobia, yet shows compassion and even admiration for actual women and lesbians, if heavily filtered by her prejudices. In Hate Plus in the aftermath of *Mute's suicide you learn that her original, factory-state programming has no such bigoted ideas—they were very much taught and in large part literally programmed by the patriarchal Ryu dynasty.

Zelos Wilder from Tales of Symphonia was taught from birth that half-elves were disgusting, stupid, beneath regular humans, saw his mother get killed by a half elf and confesses to the rest of the party that he feels conflicted about traveling with two half-elves. However, at the same time, he sympathizes with them far more than he does with his aristocratic background, and even before meeting the party, he stopped the Pope from passing various anti-half-elf legislations.

It'd be quicker to list the Mass Effect characters who don't fall into this. Almost every one of your squadmates will have at least moment of mistrust, condescension or downright hostility to some other species. Fans tend to point to Ashley as the "racist" squadmate, but she's one of the milder cases - she just worries about letting alien nationals (including a bounty hunter and a Cowboy Cop) on your prototype warship and believes that the Council will sacrifice humanity when times are difficult. The kicker is when Dr. Chakwas, ship medic and all-around Cool Old Lady, reveals some unexpectedly strong feelings about synthetic life in the third game...and if you disagree with her, she dismisses it and calls you a machine due to Shepard's cybernetics.

Fenris has a deep hatred and mistrust of mages, having been a slave in the Imperium and seen firsthand the depravities they're capable of. He also hates slavers, and is one of the more morally centered party members. To his credit, Fenris recognizes that while he holds his attitude for mages in general exceptions can be found in individuals. He will thank mages (Hawke) that have assisted him, and the worst he'll do with unproven mages is keep an eye on them.

Khelgar Ironfist from Neverwinter Nights 2. Initally hates Neeshka because she's a tiefling. Hates Elanee because she's an elf. Through his sidequest though you can get him to see his attitudes are an injustice. If you complete that quest he never quite forget them but he far more willing to let the person's actions speak.

Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a Fantastic Racist who places the rights of the indigenous Nords above those of the immigrant Dunmer, Argonians and Khajiit, but ultimately recognises that loyalty is more important than blood and will allow non-Nords to serve in his army if he's convinced they are loyal to Skyrim and his ideals.

Dennis Vicarth in Front Mission 3 made a few off-color remarks about the Japanese but is still willing to help Kazuki.

The Elven hero Nasrudin in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. Founded the Elven Council, devoted much of his life to righting wrongs and fighting evil, and became the inspiration for the Panarii religion...at the same time, an arrogant supremacist who was motivated to heroics by a belief that elves were the greatest, wisest race, and who felt it was his duty to act as shepherd and protector toward what he regarded as 'lesser races.'

Wakka from Final Fantasy X was a fun-loving, easy-going joker of a Big Brother figure to many in the party. He was also a devout Yevonite during the first half of the game and shared the religion's condemnation of the machina-using Al Bhed. He makes numerous disparaging remarks about the Al Bhed throughout the game, all the while looking out for his "little sister" Yuna, who is half Al Bhed. He later befriends Yuna's Al Bhed cousin Rikku. He's horrified to learn that both have Al Bhed heritage but eventually overcomes his prejudice and apologizes for his previously bigoted attitude.

Guilio from Gungnir is quite racist against everyone the same race as his oppressors. There are also a few women on Guilio's side that see his race as nothing more than tools to be used.

Maribelle from Fire Emblem Awakening, who is the daughter of a duke, holds some prejudice towards those of lower social class, which she speaks of constantly even to her lower class allies, even when she is trying to assist them in some way.

Similar to Maribelle, there are the noble siblings, Clair and Clive, from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Clair comes off as highly condescending in her first encounter with Alm, since she's not used to dealing with commoners. That said, she quickly apologizes and later defends Alm when Fernand much more harshly insults him for his social standing. As for Clive, while he allows both commoners and nobles alike to fight for the Deliverance, he admits that he still believes in the feudal status quo, and Python calls him out on his belief in meritocracy being potentially condescending. He even finds himself doubting his decision to hand the reins of leadership over to Alm after learning that Alm is not Sir Mycen's grandson.

Rico from Killzone hates the Helghast for invading his planet and wiping out his unit and never misses an occasion to remind it to everybody, but especially to his half-Helghan teammate Hakha. He changes over the course of the first game by slowly warming up to Hakha and even taking a bullet for him while fleeing the SD platform. In the second game, it's clear he still loathes them, but went from Kill 'em All to spare a civilian Helghast in the second game and being as horrified as everyone when their planet is nuked in the third game.

Kormac the Templar from Diablo III considers the Witch Doctor and Barbarian to be uncultured savages, but will still travel and fight alongside them if they request his assistance and will praise the barbarian for their courage and incorruptibility. Towards the end of the game he will express gratitude that his time spent alongside the heroes has given him cause to challenge his own prejudices.

Maximilian Strauss from Vampire: The Masquerade Ė Bloodlines manages to be both ageist, sexist, racist and classist, but still manages to be quite decent. His prejudice is far more patronising than vitriolic, he is generally quite helpful and unfailingly polite, and he is also very self-aware and never refuses to consider that his prejudices may have caused lapses in his judgement.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: Code Talker puts his tribe first, going as far as to research supersoldiers via parasite therapy and uranium-eating bacteria, all in the name of preserving his "peaceful, nature-abiding tribe". However, he has learned over the years that what matters more than a man's culture is how he chooses to act over it; Skull Face has proven that some people who claim to protect their homelands can be complete dicks. He compliments the efforts of Diamond Dogs as a "Superorganism" that recognizes cultural and individual differences and combines them to create a small nation.

The Brotherhood of Steel are portrayed as Noble Bigots in Fallout 4, particularly their leader, Arthur Maxson, and Paladin Danse. They believe in the protection of the Commonwealth, and the need to ruthlessly exterminate its ghoul, Super Mutant and Synth inhabitants to make it a safer place for humans.

Overwatch has Torbjörn and Zarya. Both of them are fighting on the good guys' side - Torbjörn being a founding member of Overwatch and Zarya a soldier in the Russian army - but they both unapologetically hate Omnics. This is somewhat understandable, as Torbjörn's warnings of the impending Omnic Crisis were ignored by his peers, and Zarya lost her home in said crisis. But since the only playable Omnic characters are a Nice GuyReligious Robot and a Gentle GiantCute Machine, their hateful anti-Omnic speech makes them seem a bit like Jerkasses.

Dominic Deegan Siggy was this briefly.note Briefly refers to the Noble part of the equation; bigotry is always there.

Equius of Homestuck is an alien version. He's contemptuous of his fellow trolls with blood colors too far to the red end of the rainbow and annoyed that the more purple-blooded Gamzee doesn't act like an aristocrat. He's also perfectly willing to work with lesser-blood trolls and even makes a pair of robotic legs for one on the bottom of the totem pole. His bigotry ends up getting him killed when Gamzee goes on a murderous rampage. Despite his obscene strength, he doesn't lift a finger to defend himself.

Rudy of Kevin & Kell, while a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, has problems accepting an herbivore as his stepfather and the head of the family, yet gradually grows closer to Kevin over time, even making an anonymous call exposing himself as domesticated (a condition he finds deeply shameful) to Kevin's insurance agency so that Kevin won't lose his insurance. Even Kell, despite being in a Maligned Mixed Marriage, has some prejudice against felines; an arc focuses on her working on those prejudices.

Duane in Unsounded: a devout nationalist, he subscribes wholeheartedly to his home country's abhorrence of its arch-rival Cresce and its Stay in the Kitchen attitude towards women. He comes to deconstruct the trope when he's faced with highly confident and independent women within his own family and meets Crescians living normal lives, shunting him into Troubled Sympathetic Bigot territory as he weighs his loyalty to his home country against the realities before his eyes.

Web Originals

Welcome to Night Vale: Town embarrassment, the Apache Tracker, turns out to be this in the end. Deconstructed, as while everyone acknowledges his heroic actions, he's still considered an offensive jerk.

Cartman in South Park, surprisingly, is turning into this in the most recent seasons. After his scary encounter with "Jewpacabra" and subsequent proclaimed conversion to Judaism he argues in favor of an angry and malicious Torah/Old Testament god. And the entire plot of "Cartman Finds Love" revolves around his racist views manifesting in a need to hook Token up with the new black girl in class because they 'belong together'. The lengths he goes to prevent Kyle from mucking up his plan is pretty extraordinary.

The Teen Titans episode "Troq" featured Val-Yor, an intergalactic space hero who enlists the Titans' help to defeat an otherworldly menace. Unfortunately, his people are extremely prejudiced against Starfire's people, and he repeatedly uses the slur "Troq" (meaning "nothing") when speaking to her. He gets along so well with the other titans (green-skinned elf boy, demon girl, black cyborg, and the Token Human) that they think "Troq" is a harmless term until she corrects them. He ultimately parts with the Titans on chilly terms.

Pakku held sexist values for most of his life. When he was a teenager, his bigotry caused his fiancée Kanna note Katara's future grandmother to leave him. After realizing this as an old man, he realizes that his ideas were wrong and starts to see women as equals. (For example, he trains Katara in combat waterbending and admits that she's equal or better than his male students.) He meets up with Kanna again, and after she realizes that he's changed, she marries him, making him the grandfather of Sokka and Katara.

Sokka is a bit sexist for the first few episodes, believing that women should Stay in the Kitchen and out of the fighting. After getting to know a group of female warriors firsthand and realizing their fighting capabilities, he realizes that his views were incorrect and learns to respect women and girls. After that it's gone.

A lot of characters in ThunderCats (2011) are this to some extent, most notably Tygra and Claudus, and the Cats in general.

Claudus cares about and does a good job of ensuring the safety and well being of his people and Tygra has a good heart underneath his jerkish exterior, but both have a distinct dislike of Lizards, and Tygra holds a bad opinion of Dogs. These beliefs are common for most of the Cats living in Thundera though due to generations of conflict between the two.

One reason Lion-O is considered weird is that he's not a bigot at all, noble or otherwise.

In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, of all places, both Twilight Sparkle and Rarity exhibit what comes off as racism towards mules. Rarity wails about a Diamond Dog calling her a mule, which she equates to being called ugly. Twilight gets off a little lighter, using the phrase "stubborn as a mule" and then promptly turning to a nearby mule and embarrassedly saying "no offense" (to which the mule good-naturedly replies "none taken.")

In Steven Universe, the Crystal Gems tend to be rather... dismissive of humanity, to the extent of Pearl at one point offhandedly remarking after accidentally knocking out the Beach City's electricity that it hasn't beenthatlong since humans were hunter-gatherers, and "why don't you go back to that?". They have nevertheless sacrificed everything to protect humanity and life on Earth, and show every willingness to give their lives if that's what such protection requires.

It is later revealed that they really are as bigoted as they seem in that they really only protect the earth because that's what Rose wanted, not because they wanted.

This is particularly examined with Rose in the episode We Need To Talk. Up until then, Rose had always been described by basically everyone as entirely kind and compassionate to everyone, with a special love for humans. However, in a flashback we see Greg being quite concerned about whether Rose actually sees him as a person in his own right or just as a cute, interchangable human to play around with. Finally he confronts her and asks if she respects him - her immediate response is to laugh, and she becomes quite confused when he stresses that he's serious. She seems to quickly realise that she's hurt him, however, and while she doesn't change her mind on the spot, the two make a pledge to try and understand each other better from then on.

We Bare Bears has Charlie, a bigfoot-like creature who is one of the bears' closest friends, and a very friendly person to everybody. However, he is extremely distant and xenophobic towards humans because every human he comes across can't help but harass him with cameras. Despite his xenophobia, he also cares about their lives as he wouldn't let Ranger Tabes die from a fire (despite her trying to capture him), and refuses to let Ralph (another bigfoot-like creature) kill a group of tourists as a prank.

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